On 13/08/06, Ludovic Rousseau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to have the GPT and MBR not completely in sync? AFAIK > the MBR can only contain 4 partitions and this is very limiting. My > idea is to have 4 partitions in common and some more partitions in GPT > only. > > I would like to have something like that: > MBR: > 0 firmware > 1 Mac OS X > 2 windows? > 3 Linux boot > > GPT > The 4 first partitions are the same as in the MBR > 4 Linux swap > 5 Linux home > > Since Linux knows about GPT it should see all the partitions. > > Will that work?
I confirm it works. So you are not limited to 4 partitions in total but to 4 partitions bootable from BIOS. You just need to have the Linux kernel (in /boot) in one of 4 first partitions and you can have many GNU/Linux installation on your system (I just tried with one). Bye, -- Dr. Ludovic Rousseau ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Mactel-linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users
